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CVE-2022-4345

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-4345 describes infinite loop vulnerabilities within the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark versions 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can lead to a denial of service through packet injection or the use of crafted capture files, requiring user interaction. While the potential impact is high availability, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.6.0, < 3.6.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0068 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-4345Moderate

wireshark: multiple (BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol) dissector infinite loops

Jan 12, 2023

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4345.json
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00007.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RDZMWIKH3L5JQZC6GSVOJ3N5UXNQPJGQ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SGWIW6K64PKC375YAONYXKIVT2FDEDV3
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2022-09.html
Vendor Advisory